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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Why A Woman's Work Is Never Done.

Sometimes I look around at the house at the end of the day and think to myself, "how did I break my back working all day long and still have SO much left undone"? Well, the other day I decided to jot down a few things that happened in my day and as I sat on the couch that evening and looked over the (THREE) pages I'd written, I came to a new understanding.

This is a "day in the life". This was my Tuesday. And this, my friends, is why a woman's work is never done.

* Put away all the clean dishes and place a (seemingly) empty pitcher in the dishwasher. The pitcher unknowingly has about a 1/3 cup of red Crystal Lite still lingering which splashes out all onto the kitchen floor.

* Pull out my Shark steam mop and get after it.

* Floor is sparkling and I get distracted by my Topsy Turvy. I spend 5 minutes looking at/reading the box.

* Wait, what was I doing? Oh yeah ... dishwasher!!

* BZZZZZ!!! Change laundry loads. Washer to dryer and new load in washer.

* Finish emptying dishwasher and make kitchen smell like lemons.

* Pick up toys!

* Find some items for a yard sale in the hall closet while putting up the vacuum and mop and quietly sneak out to put it away in the garage.

* The alarm chirps a tiny "beep beep".

* Baby wakes up screaming. The ear piercing glass shattering and roaring vacuum weren't enough to wake him but the tiny chirps from the alarm? Ahhhh....! Of course.

* Feed baby lunch. Baby eats well and proceeds to throw the leftovers on the floor.

* Sweep the kitchen floor. (Gosh, by now this floor ought to be clean enough to eat off of!)

* BZZZZZ!!! Laundry. You know the drill.

* Riiiing!! Phone call. The laundry switch out will wait.

* Hang up and play with baby. (He pointed to my eye when I asked where my eyes were!!)

* BZZZZZ!!!! Oh yeah, I forgot.

* Barricade the hall to fold clothes.

* Baby gets around the barricade and dives into a pile of neatly folded towels. Awesome.

* Divert baby from the laundry by taking him for a walk (holding my hand) around the house and pop in Baby Einstein.

* Pick up toys!

* Back to laundry.

* Husby comes home early (Dear Husby, can you get off at 1pm every day for the rest of life? Please and Thank you.) and throws all of his stuff on the floor and countertops.

* I sigh.

* Hug hug kiss kiss and continue folding clothes.

* 2 PM. Oops, I haven't eaten lunch and my tummy is growling. Grab a Clif bar and iced tea and sit down for a minute to visit with Husby.

* BZZZZZ!!! Another load???

* Ignore laundry and try to put baby's new bookshelf together. Who am I kidding? I can't put a bookshelf together. I'm only doing it so that Husby will see, feel sorry for me and do it himself (ladies, this is a MUCH better tactic than nagging)!

* Husby takes over and I clean up his previous messes.

* Baby keeps trying to eat the tiny screws so I take him outside to play.

* Come inside and guess what? More laundry! Woo-hoo!

* Final load. Didn't think it'd ever come.

* Start thinking about supper.

* Remember the surprise dessert I was going to make for Husby.

* Forget the dessert because I should have made it hours ago.

* Put the bookshelf in proper place and organize his books!

* Read the baby 3 of those books.

* 4 PM and baby still hasn't had his second nap. His first nap was a joke because of the alarm incident. Mayday! Mayday!

* Put baby down for a nap.

* Fold the last batch of clothes.

* Pick up toys!

* Cook supper (with Husby's awesome help).

* Baby wakes.

* Kiss kiss kiss num num num.

* Eat supper and feed baby.

* Clean the kitchen. The lemony smell now smells like tacos. Make it smell like lemons again.

* Give the baby a bath. He has sweet potatoes smeared on the side of his face.

* Put away a thousand (give or take) piles of clothes.

* Crash on couch. A couch surrounded by toys.

* Mountains....and mountains of toys.

And ..... THAT is why a woman's work is never done. Just when you get going on one thing, something else happens that takes you away from the first thing and before you know it, you've done 18 other things that weren't even intended before you even remember the original task at hand! Phew! I don't know about you, but my heads a spinnin'!

So. All of you Stay At Home Mom's out there. If you have anyone ever ask you "what do you DO all day to occupy your time - sit around eating bon bons and watching soaps?", please direct them to this post.

31 comments:

I'm not a stay at home mommy yet, (but will be in a few months!!) but currently am a stay at home wifey and can totally relate to this! There's just sooooo much to do and not enough time in the day!!!!!!

So totally on the money! Whew, wore me out and reminded me to go switch my laundry! I remember the days when I had 3 under 4 and trying to do all that AND go to school! It was insane! Hang in there, it gets easier once they start school, that is, if you think that adding: do homework to your list is EASIER by any means!

I feel ya! It is so funny how much of your day I can relate to. Especially the parts about getting side tracked and forgetting what task I was tackeling originally! AND the part about the hubs coming home and throwing his stuff on the floor/table and the big "sigh" that follows :)

I was a housewife for the first 3 months of my marriage...no kids...and STILL my work was never done. I can only imagine what it's like to add a baby to the mix. I imagine it's all worth it and I can't wait until I'm a stay at home mommy. :)

I am not a stay at home mom but that is my Saturday & Sunday to a "T".........I have to admit though while at work I make lists of what has to be done & can never finish one list before I start another one the next day!

I'm not a stay at home mom but have to do all that stuff before/after I work - because I work from 6:30am - 6:30pm it does not leave me much time. It's amazing how much more efficient I am in the early morning/late night than I am on Saturdays when I have all day! I also don't have any children, so those chores aren't on my list yet.

I cannot believe how many loads of laundry you do. I do two loads on Saturday and it includes my clothes, my hubby's clothes, my sister's clothes, and her baby's clothes. You must own a TON of clothing!!

I'm a work-at-home wife and I can't believe how quickly the apartment gets dirty (even without a baby!). The dishes pile up as if by magic... The laundry seems to multiply while I sleep... And my sweet husband also has the tendency to drop his things all over our clean living room when he comes home.

Amen! Just wait til you have two kids...one that requires taking to and picking up from preschool. The laundry is almost an afterthought at that point...until hubby says "Um Sweetie, could you help me with laundry? I have no clean boxers." Oops!

I have a "work journal" - Because I'm crazy organized. It has my "to-do" for the day/week, misc. projects and I put everything I want to accomplish at the top for the day and then fill in as needed...I should post one day out of it sometime, I bet it would be similar to yours with all the different upkeep thrown in there. There's nothing like having a little baby in the mix and I'm FREAKING out just a smidge knowing I'm going to have TWO little ones SOON. :-) It'll work itself out though, Hehe!!

So true! That's pretty much my day. I did have a mom ask me that question once and I totally didn't even know how to answer. Next time I'll write it all down. I know I was exhausted just reading your post.

I have a planner that I bought at the beginning of the year,I plan my weeks, I have a checklist of chores that I designate for each day. (Monday=vacuum,mop,trash out, etc. Tuesday, Friday=laundry, Wednesday=bathrooms, etc. (About ten things per day) Than I add stuff I do and check them off so I know what extra stuff I did, so at the end of the day, I know I have been productive. :)

I wrote a poem about this not too long ago and cried the whole time I wrote it! If I can get over my inhibitions, I'll post it and let all you other SAHM read it! AMEN Glam Wifey you are wonderful! Elizabeth

this sounds just like my days!! wish i had a camera recording me all days so husband could see what it's REALLY like! ha! writing it down is a great idea though! i started cracking up when you were unloading the dishwasher then you got sidetracked and forgot what you were doing....happens to me all the time!!

Hello, Darlings!

I am a thirty-something girl who has dreamed of having babies and making a warm and enchanting home all of her life. After 12 years of school, 4 years of college and 4 years of the workforce, I finally reached my goal and am living my dream. God has blessed me with the most endearing Husby in all the land and he is a Sports Medicine Physician fulfilling his own dream. We have a bubbly little boy named Levi and an adorable baby boy named Ezra, who bring us constant joy and bundles of giggles. Join the four of us, as we walk through the journey of life one dazzling day at a time.